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Excerpt:
Lancer Kind splices cyberpunk and Hawaiian culture into a novelette length tale (roughly 70 paperback pages) that garnered Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future contest. In this global warmed future, the rising ocean level has put parts of Honolulu underwater and forced the erection of seawalls.
Nafi has given up professional surfing for a dull path to home ownership—working security at a pineapple research facility. Life gets challenging in a hurry when he's demerited for inspecting a mysterious limousine. The next day, a woman named Lina throws herself at him, and she's trouble from her dangerous curves and tongue ring to her degree in marketing. After giving her an after-hours tour of his workplace, she leaves him in the afterglow of a lap dance to smuggle samples of a pineapple out of the facility.
Nafi stops her, and instead of her starting with "I'm sorry," she accuses him and the arriving security team of abetting a company wide conspiracy to engineer a virus to devastate the pineapple crop. With his credibility ruined, Nafi's locked up with his hottie to wait for the Honolulu police. In the next few hours, video evidence is destroyed, a security guard is murdered, and an epidemiologist who's an international expert on banana viruses turns up. Nafi tries to piece together what's happening without falling for this attractive woman who he suspects is an ecoterrorist. Before the police arrive, Nafi and Lina flee a coverup that requires them dead. And not only is the pineapple crop in jeopardy, but the entire island is in the path of destruction.
The Kindle book is available for $3:
http://www.amazon.com/Honolulu-Hotti.../dp/B0044KM1VI
Here's a sample of the author's blog about Honolulu Hottie:
I’m going to talk about something you can get for free, so be sure to read to the end. Or skip to the section marked FREE. :-)
In 1989 I read my first cyberpunk novel, William Gibson’s Mona Lisa Overdrive. That novel got me reading science fiction again. Until then, I’d been on a Fantasy bender for the six years, and yes, you can get drunk on fantasy. My apologies to my brother and sister, for making them dress like hobbits and forcing them to call me The Great One. They partied like ewoks on Endor when I moved out for college.
Cyberpunk is considered an old genre (the cool kids are doing steampunk) but it appeals to the mundane science fiction reader in me. It’s mundane because Cyberpunk has similarities to reality, such as the absence of spaceships flitting from star to star at speeds faster than light (at least OUR spaceships). Cyberpunk stories are near future and filled with high-tech lowlifes. It’s a good genre for tales of “warning” because it’s mundane enough to see how our day-to-day life contributes to the tale’s vision.
What’s Hawaiian cyberpunk? Sunglasses and surfboards with datajacks? (Might as well do something with that leash around surfer’s leg.) Honolulu Hottie is my take on it. It’s a novelette which is like a novel but a third of the size because I only kept the good parts. The story’s about Nafi, a world champion surfer who got a regular job but get’s seduced by a political activist. She gets him in trouble, he loses his job, and they’re on the run from a corporate coverup that requires them dead. Surfboards, datajacks, crime, and poi. You know, Hawaiian cyberpunk.
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